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Survey reveals high rate of abortion complications

Pro-choice people often claim that legalizing abortion made it safer. But:

“In an attempt to learn how pervasive the problem of serious abortion complications is, an American obstetrician surveyed 486 of his colleagues regarding their experience with abortion patients. 87% revealed they had hospitalized women with complications following legal abortions; 91% had treated patients for complications. 29 of the doctors reported patients of theirs dying from legally induced abortions.”

Ann Saltenberger Every Woman Has a Right to Know the Dangers of Legal Abortion (Glassboro, New Jersey: Air – Plus Enterprises, 1983) 52

The information was presented at the ACOG Convention, Oct 28, 1975 by MJ Bulfin “Deaths and Near Deaths with Legal Abortions”

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D&E procedure causes abortionists “emotional strain”

On an abortion procedure called D&E:

“D&E often involves greater emotional strain on the clinicians and staff. It forces them to deal with the fetus in an intimate way that many find distasteful.”

W Cates “D&E After 12 Weeks: Safe or Hazardous?” Contemporary Ob/Gyn, Medical Economics Co. 13:23-29, January 1979

below is a diagram showing how a D&E is done

In this video, a former abortionist describes the D&E procedure.

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Woman tells story of forced abortion

One woman tells the story of her abortion:

“While I was at the hospital there were three [women] in my room, two of whom had a few abortions… They were in their early 20s as I was, but their hearts were so hardened.

The nurse came and gave me a shot to relax me and then they came to roll me down the hall to the operating room. I remember saying, “Please stop. I’ve changed my mind; I want to keep my baby.”

Their reply was now, now, it will be over before you know it. The next thing I knew I was waking up very empty very lost. I would lie there remembering how my body felt full of child and how in one moment of time my body felt dead and empty… I see young girls doing what I did and it breaks my heart. If I could only talk with them for just a minute and share with them the hurt that I have suffered…”

“Two Women Tell About Their Abortions” Voice for the Preborn, Sept/Nov 1979

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Woman describes abortion: “God, the pain!”

Karen T, age 23, tells her abortion story:

“They told me the local would be less dangerous and that general anesthetics would give me cramps and make me throw up and have to stay there for hours recovering from it. The local, they said, was just a shot in the cervix which has no nerve endings, and that I’d be out in 45 minutes. And like an ass I believed them… Instead of shaving my crotch, they spray-painted it with some orange disinfectant. It was like graffiti. Then I saw a long syringe and nearly died. But it didn’t hurt, just like they said. The doctor said he’d have to dilate me three times with rods to open me up enough. So when he starts to work, the nurse start asking me dumb questions like what religion I am and who the father was. God, the pain. I was screaming and the doctor was getting worried. “Hang on,” he kept saying, “It’ll be over in just a minute.” I kept screaming back, “You said there’d be no pain and you lied!” Then they made me sit up and I didn’t know if I was going to faint or throw up. The nurse gave me some smelling salts and led me over to a cot… The cramping got so bad I had had to stay there five hours.”

Linda Bird Francke The Ambivalence of Abortion (Random House, 1978) quoted in Ann Saltenberger Every Woman Has a Right to Know the Dangers of Legal Abortion (Glassboro, New Jersey: Air – Plus Enterprises, 1983)

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Doctor comments on abortions to save the mother’s life

From a doctor, writing in 1976:

“After many years working several large gynecological hospitals, I have never yet seen a woman’s life in danger, necessitating an abortion. I have seen 2 extremely sick women offered abortions because of serious heart–lung disease; both refused, and both delivered normal children, normally. When a doctor declares that the patient’s life is in danger because of a pregnancy and an associated disease, that is his clinical opinion. There is no absolute indication for a legal abortion in such circumstances.”

M Harry “A Critical Evaluation of Legal Abortion” World Med J 23(6):83-85, 1976

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An ironic comment from a pro-abortion blogger

Maia has a blog that tells women how to self abort with herbs. She calls herself an “outlaw midwife” and makes the following ironic statement in an essay she wrote:

when people ask me why i am an outlaw midwife, i tell them, because revolutionaries are born everyday. if we let them be born.

“Overheard” JivinJehoshaphat August 03, 2010

See her blog.

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“Mommy. That could have been me”

From one woman who had an abortion:

Mommy *sighs*. That could have been me. Mommy. I just want my child back and I can never have that. (Expletive), I am never going to heal from this. I’m just going to live in regret, agony, and tears for the rest of my life. I have no purpose. For a few fleeting moments my purpose was to be a mother and all that is gone now and I am left with nothing. And the would-be daddy? He didn’t give a (expletive). He just wanted me to kill it. He never cared one ounce about his child I was carrying. He didn’t want the responsibility even though he was physically and financially able to give his child the life it deserved. So now here I am. Alone. Empty. Utterly empty. Nothing can replace the child I wanted more than anything when I found out I was pregnant. But that chance has passed and now I am left alone. Crying. Alone. Inconsolable. I no longer have a purpose except to be miserable.

Evolution of Chase, blogger Chase (who describes herself as pro-choice) quoted here.

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Woman working ‘one child policy’ horrified by late term abortions

From a Chinese woman who took part in the One Child Policy and both performed and witnessed abortions.

“Despite my new conviction – or was it just a rationalization? – that the one child program was necessary for China, I could not overcome my aversion for late-term abortions, whether performed by Doctor Yin or anyone else. I didn’t know which was worse – crushing a child’s skull with forceps or throwing a live baby away like so much rubbish.”

Stephen W Mosher A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight against China’s One Child Policy (Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993) 256

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Father wants to force daughter to have an abortion

One young woman at an abortion counseling center:

“I want to have my baby, but my father says he’ll kill me if I do. He’s out there in the waiting room now, and he’s telling the counselors that they should force me to have an abortion. It’s my baby and no one can tell me what to do. I don’t care what anybody says. I’m going to have my baby.”

Myron K Denney, M.D. A Matter of Choice: An Essential Guide to Every Aspect of Abortion (New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1983) 30

This shows the incredible pressure on some young women to have abortions.

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Author comments on pictures of unborn babies

Pro-choice author, on pictures of babies in the womb:

“Many women feel deprived by the fact that such images were not in circulation at the time when they aborted, others find that fact to be a source of relief.”

Eva Pattis Zoja Abortion: Loss and Renewal in the Search for Identity (London: Routledge, 1997) 72-73

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